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Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman

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Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman, or ECDH, is a key agreement protocol that lets two parties, each holding an elliptic-curve public-private key pair, establish a shared secret over an insecure channel. The resulting shared secret can be used directly as a key or to derive one for a symmetric-key cipher, and the protocol is a variant of the original Diffie-Hellman method adapted to elliptic-curve cryptography.

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Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman adapts the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to elliptic curve groups, a variant credited to Victor Miller and Neal Koblitz in 1985.

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